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TV This Week, May 29-June 4: ‘Peaky Blinders’ and more

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SUNDAY

The Beach Boys, soprano Renee Fleming, Katharine McPhee, Trace Adkins and final “American Idol” winner Trent Harmon perform at the 27th edition of the “National Memorial Day Concert.” Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna return as co-hosts. 8 p.m. KOCE

“Yeti or Not,” Animal Planet’s annual “Monster Week” continues with this new special about the search for the so-called Abominable Snowman. 9 p.m. Animal Planet

Host Andy Richter referees an all-new season of “Celebrity Food Fight.” 10 and 10:30 p.m. Food Network

MONDAY

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Pro hockey’s “2016 Stanley Cup Final” gets underway, sans Ducks and/or Kings. 5 p.m. NBC; also Wed., Sat.

Competitors 13 and younger will put their best feet forward for the 13th season of “So You Think You Can Dance.” With returning judges Nigel Lythgoe, Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo and returning host Cat Deeley. 8 p.m. Fox

“Restrepo” filmmaker Sebastian Junger and Adam Driver from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” are featured in the new special “TED Talks War and Peace.” 9 p.m. KOCE

“Roots” is reborn in a four-part re-imagining of the landmark 1977 miniseries based on Alex Haley’s bestseller. With Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and newcomer Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte. 9 p.m. A&E, History Channel, Lifetime; also Tue.-Thu.

Former “Friends” star Matt LeBlanc serves as a new co-host when “Top Gear” returns with new episodes. 9 p.m. BBC America

Anthony Hopkins plays a veteran stage actor and Ian McKellen plays “The Dresser” who dresses him in a new adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s drama set in WWII-era London. 9 p.m. Starz

The soapy summer drama “Mistresses” is back for a fourth season. With Yunjin Kim, Rochelle Aytes and Jes Macallan. 10 p.m. ABC

“POV” presents “Of Men and War,” a new documentary about Iraq and Afghan war veterans with PTSD seeking help at a treatment center in California. 10 p.m. KOCE

TUESDAY

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“Peaky Blinders” are back in business for a third season of this imported crime drama about Irish gangsters in 1920s Birmingham, England. Cillian Murphy stars. Any time, Netflix

Room for one more? “American Idol’s” Simon Cowell joins Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel and Mel B at the judges table on a new season of “America’s Got Talent.” 8 p.m. NBC

It’s like Leonardo DiCaprio’s worst nightmare in the new “Monster Week” special “Grizzly Uprising.” 8 p.m. Animal Planet

“Secrets of the Dead” returns to the Colonial era in the new episode “Jamestown’s Dark Winter.” 9 p.m. KOCE

Former “Saturday Night Live” cast members Maya Rudolph and Martin Short are “Maya & Marty” in this new variety show. “SNL’s” Keenan Thompson also stars, although his name isn’t in the title, and “What’s up with that?!” 10 p.m. NBC

Modern-day Romeos and Juliets share their hopefully nontragic love stories in the new docu-series “Teenage Newlyweds.” 10 p.m. FYI

WEDNESDAY

The extreme obstacle-course competition “American Ninja Warrior” kicks off a new season with qualifying rounds right here in L.A. 8 p.m. NBC

Joe Jonas and Hailee Steinfeld look to make a splash at this year’s edition of the “iHeartRadio Summer Pool Party.” Other performers include Flo Rida, Tinashe, Lukas Graham, Kygo and Jason Derulo. 8 p.m. KTLA

Start your mixers! The Gordon Ramsay-hosted culinary competition “MasterChef” is back for a seventh season. 8 p.m. Fox

Visit the “Lair of the Killer Crocs” but beware the “Attack of the Killer Dragons” in these new specials. 8 p.m. Animal Planet

Heartbroken Gabi (Emily Osment) heads for Hawaii on the season premiere of the sitcom “Young & Hungry.” 8 p.m. Freeform

Free to be: TLC pairs the new specials “Transgender Kids” and “Transgender Kids Camp.” 8 and 9 p.m. TLC

“Genius by Stephen Hawking” seeks answers to the questions “What Are We?” and “Where Are We?” in these back-to-back season-ending episodes. 9 and 10 p.m. KOCE

The San Antonio-set medical drama “The Night Shift” is back for a third season. With Eoin Macken, Scott Wolf, Ken Leung and Brendan Fehr. 10 p.m. NBC

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Aboriginal folklore and modern-day fears of terrorism, racial profiling, etc., merge in the new imported drama “Cleverman.” With Frances O’Connor and “Game of Thrones’” Iain Glen. 10 p.m. SundanceTV

THURSDAY

Pro basketball’s “2016 NBA Finals” get underway, sans Lakers and/or Clippers. 6 p.m. ABC

The docu-series “The Eighties” logs off with a look at the early days of home computing and the Internet. 6 p.m. CNN

The winner is revealed in the season finale of the fitness competition “Strong” hosted by Gabrielle Reece. 8 p.m. NBC

Kristin Kreuk and Jay Ryan return as, respectively, “Beauty and the Beast” in the fantasy-drama’s fourth-season premiere. 9 p.m. KTLA

The animated comedy “Archer” airs its seventh-season finale. 10 p.m. FX

A young terminally ill comic goes for all the laughs he can get in the new stand-up special “Quincy Jones: Burning the Light.” 10 p.m. HBO

“Archer’s” Aisha Tyler faces former NBA great Shaquille O’Neal in an all-new “Lip Sync Battle.” 10 p.m. Spike

The new series “Vintage Flip” features a married couple from the O.C. doing the fixer-upper thing, but with an old-school twist. 11 and 11:30 p.m. HGTV

FRIDAY

A pro quarterback and special guest mentors help young kids shoot for the stars in the new series “All In With Cam Newton.” 8 p.m. Nickelodeon

Do Grandma and Grandpa seem a little weird to you? They do in M. Night Shyamalan’s creepy 2015 found-footage thriller “The Visit.” With Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould and Kathryn Hahn. 8:20 p.m. Cinemax; also 10 p.m. Sat.

Our young heroine (Rowan Blanchard) starts high school on the season premiere of the sitcom “Girl Meets World.” 8:30 p.m. Disney Channel

A beloved TV star revisits her beloved variety show for the special “Carol Burnett’s Favorite Sketches.” 9 p.m. KOCE

Ding-dong! “The Wonder Years’” Danica McKellar hears “Wedding Bells” in this new made-for-cable romantic fable. 9 p.m. Hallmark Channel

Something wicked: From “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman comes the new supernatural drama “Outcast.” With Patrick Fugit, Philip Glenister and “Star Trek: TNG’s” Brent Spiner. 10 p.m. Cinemax

The scourge of slavery in these United States is explored in the new follow-up special “Roots: A History Revealed.” 10 p.m. History Channel

The new stand-up special “Ben Gleib: Neurotic Gangster” features the comic and “Idiotest” host cracking wise at the Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre. 10 p.m. Showtime

“Weird Al” Yankovic takes over as music director on the return of “Comedy Bang! Bang!” hosted by Scott Aukerman. 11 and 11:30 p.m. IFC

SATURDAY

Matt Damon may be “The Martian” but he’s no Ray Walston in Ridley Scott’s effects-laden 2015 sci-fi thriller based Andy Weir’s bestseller. With Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan and Chiwetel Ejiofor. 8 p.m. HBO

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“Till death do us part” could come sooner rather than later in the new made-for-TV thriller “You May Now Kill the Bride.” With Tammin Sursok (“Pretty Little Liars”), Ashley Newbrough and Rocky Myers. 8 p.m. Lifetime

“Spy Kids’” Alexa PenaVega stars as a wedding planner in the new made-for-cable romantic fable “Ms. Matched.” With Shawn Roberts. 9 p.m. Hallmark Channel

The Nazis stole her family’s Gustav Klimt painting and decades later she’s suing to get it back in the fact-based 2015 drama “Woman in Gold.” With Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. 9 p.m. Showtime


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